Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

Contents:

• 8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Today, May 17th, is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, first anized back 2004 orr “to draw the attentn of policymakers, opn lears, social movements, the public and the media to the vlence and discrimatn experienced by LGBTI people ternatnally. So, nsirg the ternatnal foc of the day, I’ve put together a list of great books by LGBTQ wrers who were born  untri where is still actually illegal to be gay. Jam was never out Jamai—he has scribed himself there as “very much the closet and very much the church, which is a very big closet Jamai”—and Jamai still has strong cultural bias agast homosexualy, even outsi of the laws.

Rad hosts exprsed “regret” that he was queer, while others reportedly bshed off his beg gay as a mor. ” In the same terview, he explas that the genis of the book was one character, John-John K: “It was a gay hman gog through boyiend troubl, tryg to kill someone, ” Jam says. In his but novel, Rasa, a young gay translator livg an unnamed Middle Eastern untry, is ught wh his lover (by his grandmother, no ls), and then his bt iend is arrted, and we follow the fallout—as well as lve to Rasa’s memori—throughout the day.

Often ced as the first openly gay novelist om Moroc, where same-sex sexual activy has been illegal sce 1962, Taïa’s tobgraphil novels have ma him, at least for some, “an inic figure his homeland of Moroc and throughout the Arab world, and a bean of hope a untry where homosexualy is illegal.

BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME

” Infils tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, the son of a prostute, who grows up to bee a young gay Mlim, and then a jihadi. But I don’t wre only to say that I am homosexual. In 2013, Taïa ma his directorial but wh Salvatn Army, a film adaptatn of his novel by the same name, which, as Aida Alami wrote  The New York Tim, “gave the Arab world s first on-screen gay protagonist.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

In this stallment, narrated alternately by a young gay Mlim and a woman searchg for her closeted hband through a wild polil and cultural enzy, nuclear war looms and thgs only get more and more bizarre. In an say entled “How to be Gay and Indian” at Granta, Suri wr:. Most Indians, even if exposed to the nascent gay visibily, have simply not thought the issue through.

Dpe my ankns wh their rrponnt, The Tim of India managed to publish an entire natnwi centre-page terview wh me whout once mentng the gay angle—eher my life or my book....

It helps that there are no explic proscriptns agast homosexualy Hduism. A populatn so characterized by difference (whether relign, language, ste, class or sk lor), and so proudly ristant to any attempt at homogenizatn, n hardly turn around to earmark queers for special discrimatn. Like the protagonist of his novel, Canadian novelist Shyam Selvadurai was born Sri Lanka, where homosexualy is illegal (though paradoxilly, so is anti-LGBTQ discrimatn).